Jeannie Snay (left) and Shelli Stohler talk with teacher Alicia Freed at the new Autism House at Hinkle Creek Elementary.

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Betsy Reason
betsy.reason@indystar.com

A model classroom that offers strategies for teaching students with autism is getting the thumbs-up from parents, teachers and administrators in Noblesville.

Noblesville Schools' new Autism House at Hinkle Creek Elementary provides a model of how teachers can set up their classrooms and get ideas that can be used in both general education and special education classrooms to work with students diagnosed with autism, Asperger's syndrome and other developmental disorders.

The Autism House is the first model classroom of its kind in Hamilton County. "This is just the beginning of what ...